Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Kinder Bueno makes Ferrero's Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LX with a 30-second space-themed spot starring William Fichtner and Paige DeSorbo.

Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

Bad Bunny became the first Latino solo artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, performing almost entirely in Spanish with Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin; it averaged 128.2 million US viewers.

A new training platform built on PowerLu, Lululemon's highest filament-count fabric, for heavy lifts and deep squats, wear-tested by Lewis Hamilton and Kayla Jeter and launched in North America.

A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.

The Recording Academy added 11 albums and three songs to the Grammy Hall of Fame on 11 February 2026, including OK Computer, Rhythm Nation 1814, All Eyez On Me and Selena's Amor Prohibido.

Heineken said it would cut 5,000 to 6,000 roles, almost 7% of its 87,000-strong workforce, over the next two years as it presented 2025 results in which total beer volume fell 1.2% and guided to slower profit growth of 2% to 6% for 2026.

A shopper sued Alo in Los Angeles federal court in a proposed class action claiming it sent marketing texts to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, months after a first texting suit was dropped.

The FDA approves new labels for six menopausal hormone therapy products, one from each class, that drop the cardiovascular, breast cancer and dementia statements from the boxed warning; 29 companies have filed changes.

Emerald Fennell directs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel about the destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft rivals, asking whether its licensing hobbles Windows and Office on other clouds and how it bundles AI, security and identity software.

A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.

The California DMV said Tesla had stopped using the term 'Autopilot' in its marketing, meeting the terms of the December ruling and avoiding a 30-day suspension of its licences to sell and build cars in the state.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6, its most capable Sonnet, which coding testers preferred to Opus 4.5 and which becomes the free default in claude.ai with a 1M-token context window at $3 per million input tokens.

IFPI named Taylor Swift the biggest-selling recording artist in the world for 2025, her fourth year running and sixth in all, as many wins as every other artist combined over the past decade, driven by The Life of a Showgirl.

eBay announced a deal to buy resale marketplace Depop from Etsy for about $1.2 billion in cash, aiming to accelerate its push into younger, Gen Z-heavy fashion resale.

Host Hotels & Resorts sold the 444-room Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World and the 125-room Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole for a combined $1.1 billion, ending its ownership of both properties.

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami refused to overturn or cut the jury's verdict over the fatal 2019 Key Largo Autopilot crash, finding that the evidence at trial 'more than supports' it, which cleared the way for Tesla's appeal.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

Studio Khara debuts a new short Evangelion animation at the "EVANGELION:30+" 30th-anniversary fan event in Yokohama Arena, marking three decades since Neon Genesis Evangelion's original broadcast.

Khara and CloverWorks revealed a brand-new Evangelion anime series at the close of the franchise's 30th anniversary festival, with NieR creator Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Tōko Yatabe directing.

The Blizzard of 2026 dropped 17.1 inches on Logan Airport on 23 February 2026 and more than three feet on parts of southeastern Massachusetts, with a 68 mph gust at Logan and Boston's first blizzard warning since January 2022.

Alo Yoga confirmed its first Australian stores, at Chatswood Chase and a two-level, 700 m² store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

Nike began sending breach notices on 25 February 2026 about an intrusion, found on 21 January, into a portal hosted by a third-party service provider that exposed customers' contact, order and payment card information; Nike says no full card details or account credentials were taken.

BART's board initially approved an Alternative Service Plan to close a $376 million deficit if no new money arrives: three lines and 30% higher fares from January 2027 and 1,200 layoffs, then up to 15 stations closed and trains stopping at 9pm.

A US$1.14 billion gain from taking control of India's AWL Agri Business outweighed Indonesian compensation, Chinese legal provisions and a Pakistan write-down; the dividend was cut to S$0.14.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Levi Strauss & Co. closed the sale of its Dockers khaki-pants brand to brand-management firm Authentic Brands Group, a deal first agreed in May 2025 for $311 million with a potential earnout to $391 million, as Levi's narrowed its focus to its core denim business.

Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.

'APT.' is voted International Song of the Year at the first Brit Awards held outside London, making Rosé the first K-pop artist to win a Brit; it beat Mars' own 'Die With a Smile'.